Mortal Kombat: Deception (Xbox)

My review of this game:
(1) Bad, (2) Poor, (3) good, (4) very good, (5) Amazing!!!
Graphics: 5
Story Line: 3
Game Play: 5
Multiplayer: 4
Sound: 4

Overall rating: 5

Midway has recognised that not everyone wants to spend weeks learning different combos, so with Mortal Kombat Deception you get mostly simple combos and a few special moves. This makes the game much easier to pick up and play reasonably well. If like me you are trying to demonstrate the game to cynical friends, this raises its appeal, as it only takes a few fights before they start feeling that they have got the hang of the game.

Of course, this means that you will get beaten by rookies! However, the addition of a 'Hara Kiri' move, which allows you to kill yourself before your opponent can, allows you to take the shine off of their victory, and helps to avoid total embarrassment!

Should you tire of the normal fighting mode, the other modes will add a lot to the life of the game. They feature Chess, Tetris, and an adventure game; all clones of other games, but with a distinct Mortal Kombat theme to them. Each one therefore shares the sense of comedy and simple fun, which anyone can pick up and enjoy.

Of course, there are flaws. The extra game modes become tedious quickly, especially when playing against the computer. The character animations are also poor, with characters switching poses without any joining frames. It creates sudden movements which can get annoying to watch. Finally, there are very few long, varied or tough combos to pull off in the fighting mode, which will frustrate those who like spending weeks learning different moves. If that is you, maybe rent Deception for a couple of nights for a few laughs. For everyone else, though, buy this. The different modes and simple, comic gameplay, will keep you playing for months!

I bought this game just over a week ago and I have to say that it has kept me spellbound ever since (I even sneaked in a sicky with work so that I could finish the Konquest mode).

The game itself outshines anything that the mortal kombat series has thrown up before it, beautiful backgrounds, stunning animation and some seriously bone crunching combos - its just a shame that after a weeks worth of playing that I have unlocked all but one character (the ever elusive noob saibot/smoke pairing).

The fatalaties and hara-kiri moves are as camp and over-done as ever and look absolutely brilliant (I couldnt believe the first time I saw a character tear out her own thigh bones and stab them into her eyes, outrageous-well over the top-and completely brilliant).

Online on Live is quality as well - nothing beats turning a certain defeat around by sending your opponent slamming into the meat grinder and laughing all the way back into the lobby as they send torrents of abuse back at you.

The game gets a solid five stars - had it been simply the combat it would have been a 4.5, but the konquest mode, chess mode, and puzzle fighter make this one of the most entertaining packages I have played for a long time.

I am a huge fan of Mortal Kombat and have collected all of
them:(MK1, 2, 3, Ultimate MK3, advanced, Trilogy, 4, Gold,
Mythologies, special forces & Deadly Alliance, and Deception)
since i got sega mega-drive when i was little.
And every time a new one came out it was more than 10x better,
but Deception is going to be 100x better than Deadly Alliance.

There are loads of classic characters that are back like:
Baraka, Ermac, Jade, Kabal, Nightwolf, Noob-Saibot, Smoke,
Raiden, Scorpion, Sindel, Sub-Zero, Tanya and the secret
character Lui Kang, who is a zombie.

There are loads of new features like: Death Traps, Mini Game's
and Kari Kari(suicidal) moves and Onine Kombat.

In most level there are Death traps, which kill your opponant
in one shot eg.The Dark Prison(spiked walls that closes onto
the opponant!
Here are the names of the levels, which if your a Mortal Kombat
fan you will reconise some of them! [the ones with a * beside
them means there is a death trap(s)]:
Beetle Lair
Slaughter House*
Sky Temple*
YinYang Island*
Chamber Of Artifacts
Nethership Interior
Hell's Foundary*
Golden Desert**
Dark Prison*
Lower Mines***
Dragon Mountain
Lui Kang's Tomb
Courtyard
Portal
The Pit*
Quan Chi's Fortress*
The Dead Pool*
Kuatan Palace*
Living Forest
Dragon King's Temple*
Nexus*

The Konquest is even more better, because you start as a
16 year-old teenager, who is called 'Shujinko' and end as
a 60 year-old man, and when you complete Konquest he will
become a playable character. In Konquest you can meet literally
every single Mortal Kombat character including Motaro, the
boss of MK3! Also you can battle people from the previous games
even though you can't play as them eg.Johnny Cage & Sonya Blade.
+more!

Deception is abit like Dead or Alive, but with alot of blood
and can make your opponant EXPLODE! On most levels your start
in an area and you think "Hey, i'm not in the right arena", but
you are in the right arena, all your have to do is blast them
through a railing or wall, and to make it even better the
'uppercuts' are back, so you can punch them in the sky and make
them land on old wood flooring and make them fall to the next
area!

I recommend this game to all Beat'em-up and Mortal Kombat fans!
i give this game top 5 stars!

good graphics
Lots of GORE
Tons of charachters
and the all disemboweling fatalities are back

But your probably thinking 'wow he's only said 4 things' but i named four things that they could have improved onbecause everything else is top notch.
the combos are difficult to pull off sometimes but are very rewarding. The konquest mode is great because it gives you the story from shujinko's point of view since the MK world was madeand if your patient you will earn more koins and meet all the charachters ever except for reptile who just says 'leave me be'

all in all a 100% sucessfull game

good graphics
Lots of GORE
Tons of charachters
and the all disemboweling fatalities are back

But your probably thinking 'wow he's only said 4 things' but i named four things that they could have improved onbecause everything else is top notch.
the combos are difficult to pull off sometimes but are very rewarding. The konquest mode is great because it gives you the story from shujinko's point of view since the MK world was madeand if your patient you will earn more koins and meet all the charachters ever except for reptile who just says 'leave me be'

all in all a 100% sucessfull game